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Senior Pastor in one church on the Gulf Coast since 1987
Amazon top-60 bestselling author
Former decorated FL law enforcement officer, in two different Sheriff's offices
Serves on the Board of Regents for the University of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama since 2000
Supplemental Background Info
In 2016 Fox News Business Report called Pastor Carl Gallups one of the top-five most influential evangelical leaders in America.
Pastor Carl Gallups has been the senior pastor of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida since 1987. He is an internationally acclaimed Amazon TOP-60 best selling author of numerous books, a ghostwriter and contributing author for several other renowned bestselling authors, and was a conservative radio talk show host from 2002-2021 on two Gulf Coast AM stations and two Gulf Coast FM stations. He was the host of two shows - Ask the Preacher with Pastor Carl Gallups, and Freedom Friday with Carl Gallups - the Oval Office of Gulf Coast Talk Radio. Currently, Ask the Preacher still airs on 1620 AM and 92.3 FM on the Gulf Coast (9-10 AM ET).
Pastor Gallups was also a former decorated Florida law enforcement officer, having served with two different sheriff's offices under three different sheriff's administrations. He was the recipient of the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award - twice - once in each of the two sheriff's offices, and the recipient of a Commendation of Valor for risking his life in the line of duty as well as two commendations of Meritorious Service in the Line of Duty. He was also given an award by a regional chapter of the NAACP for risking his life in the line of duty after going into a burning apartment complex to pull several occupants out to safety. Carl was Florida's very first 18-year-old Corrections Officer with the Florida Dept. of Corrections. In some of the last years of his law enforcement oriented career he served as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau of Admissions and Release Authority with the Florida Dept. of Corrections Central Office Headquarters at Tallahassee, FL.
Carl is a graduate of Florida State University (B.Sc. Criminology), The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div. - Emphasis in Theology, and Greek & Hebrew Studies), and the Florida Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy (including several law enforcement techniques and criminal/forensics investigations specialty training courses). Carl serves on the Board of Regents with the University of Mobile, in Mobile, Alabama - since 2000. Carl also opened the Donald Trump for President Rally in Pensacola, FL in January 2016 at request of the Trump campaign's Florida representatives. This was then-candidate Trump's very first Florida Rally. He was also deputized, in 2016, as a Special Deputy by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, formerly of the Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff's Office.
Carl is a frequent guest on numerous renowned national and international television and radio programs. He is also a popular Bible and Prophecy conference speaker. Carl has preached and taught crusades, Bible conferences, Church services - on three continents and in four nations (Israel, Canada, USA, Peru). His USA preaching includes Alaska, Hawaii, California, New York, all over the South East, as well as in Michigan, Wisconsin, Utah, Missouri, Arizona, and Texas. His Canadian preaching includes Toronto, Calgary, Kamloops, Cochran, and Vancouver. He has preached all over the city of Lima and Comas Peru, in numerous churches, crusades, and Bible conferences.
Carl has also preached in national and international Youth Evangelism and Discipleship Conferences all over the US and Canada, several of them with well over 3,000 to 5,000 in attendance. One conference was preached in tandem with Josh McDowell of Campus Crusade for Christ.
CARL SAYS: My passion in life is to faithfully advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, equipping believers to be faithful ambassadors of that Kingdom work. We are living in the most profoundly prophetic times since the first coming of Jesus Christ. I am striving to wake up the church-at-large to this biblical truth.
Pastor Carl Gallups - Bio Info (Click here for drop-down page)
Carl's Recent Messages & Teachings Playlist
Carl's ongoing Revelation Teaching podcasts...HERE (2021-2022)
